Example sentences of "[adv] no " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps no ballet has ever made the same impact on dancers and audience as Stravinsky 's Rite of Spring . |
| 2 | Perhaps no one would deny this ; but as each generation of students arrives more defiantly or hopelessly monoglot , as a whole new discipline ( called ‘ Comparative Literature ’ ) has come into being to cater for those exceptional persons who can read more languages than one , the need for a classroom manual to redress this state of affairs becomes ever more urgent . |
| 3 | Perhaps no one has been persuaded of this except those — a growing number , after all — who find that knowledge in these areas is indispensable for the understanding of The Cantos and of Pound 's later translations , for instance from Sophocles . |
| 4 | And of such professors , how many would rest content with the conclusion that Pound reached in 1918 : ‘ A critic must spend some of his time asking questions — which perhaps no one can answer . |
| 5 | And , the way things had been going for Gerhard Berger , it was perhaps no surprise that it should be his McLaren which would suffer that fate . |
| 6 | Perhaps no one would ever know the reason , for Jerome Fanshawe 's Jaguar had skidded , crashed and caught fire five miles from the hospital where the sole survivor now lay . |
| 7 | Perhaps no player has ever been quite as competitive as Botham , and if his combativeness has led him into trouble off the field it has generally worked in his favour on it — except when he has refused to part with the ball despite not bowling well , or when he has holed out in the deep when a more circumspect approach was required . |
| 8 | These skills are perhaps no better illustrated than by the finds from the ship-burial at Sutton Hoo . |
| 9 | It is perhaps no surprise that there is a close correspondence between the themes announced in The Achievements and on the Augustan coinage : his restoration of the Republican constitution , his new name ‘ Augustus ’ , his personal subventions to the public treasury , his repair of roads and building of temples , his restoration of military standards from Spain , Gaul and Parthia . |
| 10 | Or perhaps no one can understand anyone : each blackbird believes that he has put into his whistle a meaning fundamental for him , but only he understands it ; the other gives him a reply that had no connection with what he said ; it is a dialogue between the deaf , a conversation without head or tail . |
| 11 | THERE is perhaps no more potent or dramatic symbol of the Industrial Revolution than the railways . |
| 12 | Perhaps no one sees this point better than St. Francis . |
| 13 | To save us from ourselves , it is perhaps no coincidence that God chose the humblest and the least affluent circumstances through which to announce Himself . |
| 14 | Cutters often come from broken homes , although perhaps no more often than attempted suicide patients in general ( Rosenthal et al. 1972 ) . |
| 15 | I HAVE always suffered from an easily bruised ego ( the result of either too early , too late , or perhaps no toilet training ) . |
| 16 | As well as penalties laid down for breaking the contract ( perhaps no evenings out for a given period ? ) , there need to be rewards for keeping it , perhaps in the form of a family treat . |
| 17 | Perhaps no other way will I and all the rest of us have the freedom and justice and equality that is ours by right . |
| 18 | Perhaps no one deserved a son like Sheridan . |
| 19 | His final decision is in favour of whichever proves stronger , but the stronger for perhaps no more than the brief spell of fullest awareness in which he decides , afterwards to be panic-stricken at having committed himself to a choice which none the less he still knows in his heart was right . |
| 20 | There is perhaps no better assurance of the reality of a fundamental drive than when it is seen to flourish in the most difficult and primitive circumstances . |
| 21 | If individuals could see more widely — as we can , by virtue of the narrative structure of The Lord of the Rings — they would realise that events have a cause-and-effect logic , though there are so many causes that perhaps no one but God can ever see them all at once . |
| 22 | There is perhaps no better way to appreciate the chasm which was to grow up between the established Anglican church of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries with its close links to the powerful secular state and English nonconformity with its tenacity and separateness , than to contrast the pride and grandeur of Wren 's St Paul 's with the humbleness and lack of pretension of Jordans meeting-house . |
| 23 | It is perhaps no exaggeration to suggest that the weather saved France from a catastrophic defeat , for by 21 February there were still only two French divisions in position , facing six German divisions and their massed arsenal . |
| 24 | Perhaps no society which had surmounted such a trial could consider itself as simply one power amongst many . |
| 25 | The track that Mr Foyt made his second home has changed over the years , but perhaps no more so than in the past year . |
| 26 | These might include a number of individual sessions , or a place in an anxiety management group , or even perhaps no further involvement . |
| 27 | It was perhaps no coincidence that French was adopted by English departments of state during the Anglo-French rapprochement of that time . |
| 28 | One lesson learned from the results of the February nineteenth-century painting sales in New York is that , as in perhaps no other paintings field , subject is everything . |
| 29 | Maybe , but perhaps no estimate would have been low enough . |
| 30 | The dramaturgical metaphor would suggest that we look to the audience for the arbitration of the action , and it is perhaps no surprise that the peer group emerged as crucial in this respect . |